Note 207 — Chapter II
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Annexed are engravings of a contemporary print, “Exact draft of Boston harbor,” and of a ground plan of Castle William from originals in the British Museum. See notes on the construction and history of this fortress in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 101, 127. The Catal. of the King’s Maps in the Brit. Mus. (i. p. 216) shows a drawn plan of the Castle, by Colonel Romer, 1705, four sheets, with a profile. Pownall’s view of Boston (1757) shows the Castle in the foreground. (Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 127; Columbian Mag., Dec., 1787; Drake’s Boston, folio ed.). The plan of the island as given in Pelham’s map is sketched in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 127.